shutdown procedures (which have a duration of more than 120 seconds).
We have two user-space affecting shutdown timeouts: a "soft" one in
/etc/rc.shutdown and a "hard" one in init(8). The first one can be
configured via /etc/rc.conf variable "rcshutdown_timeout" and defaults
to 30 seconds. The second one was originally (in 1998) intended to be
configured via sysctl(8) variable "kern.shutdown_timeout" and defaults
to 120 seconds.
Unfortunately, the "kern.shutdown_timeout" was declared "unused" in 1999
(as it obviously is actually not used within the kernel itself) and
hence was intentionally but misleadingly removed in revision 1.107 from
init_main.c. Kernel sysctl(8) variables are certainly a wrong way to
control user-space processes in general, but in this particular case the
sysctl(8) variable should have remained as it supports init(8), which
isn't passed command line flags (which in turn could have been set via
/etc/rc.conf), etc.
As there is already a similar "kern.init_path" sysctl(8) variable which
directly affects init(8), resurrect the init(8) shutdown timeout under
sysctl(8) variable "kern.init_shutdown_timeout". But this time document
it as being intentionally unused within the kernel and used by init(8).
Also document it in the manpages init(8) and rc.conf(5).
Reviewed by: phk
MFC after: 2 weeks
- Replace 'process' with 'thread' everywhere.
- Update several places to note that that the fact that default mutexes
may adaptively spin isn't necessarily MD, but is just part of the
implementation as a whole.
- Clarify the text about MTX_SPIN mutexes only being appropriate for
INTR_FAST interrupts or other low level scheduler code to make the
jargon more FreeBSD-ish rather than BSD/OS-ish.
- Also, note that it is possible that interrupts aren't blocked but just
deferred when a spin lock is held (the whole blocked vs. deferred bit is
an MD implementation detail).
- Remove statements saying that spin locks must be released in the exact
opposite order that they were acquired. This stopped being true several
years ago when we first added critical sections that stored their state
in the current thread rather than in struct mtx.
- Note that a mutex must be initialized before it is passed to any other
mutex function, not just mtx_lock.
- Clarify that mtx_trylock() only operates on MTX_DEF mutexes.
- Simplify the text about possible preemption during a mtx_unlock().
- Use complete English sentences in place of phrases in a few places.
- Clarify that it isn't ever safe to sleep with a mutex held. The kernel
tends to panic when you do that.
Requested by: scottl (7)
MFC after: 3 days
- The first "alias" "Yes" should be "No**".
- Made "builtin echo command" consistent with csh and sh manpages.
- In group of 3 interactive commands, 2 used .Pa instead of .Ic.
- "Name" section now has "builtin" and "built-in" for better apropos.
- Added these builtins: !, %, ., :, @, {, }, local, return
PR: docs/85065
Approved by: keramida
MFC after: 3 days
appear in tmpmfs and varmfs default flags explicitly.
Explain why -M is good for these file systems (it maximizes
performance and makes the system more stable at low memory
conditions by reducing the chance of thrashing.)
Bump .Dd accordingly.
MFC after: 3 days
of the form "REFUSE foo" in portsnap.conf will result in parts of the
tree matching "^foo" being (a) not extracted by "portsnap extract", (b)
not updated by "portsnap update", and (c) not having any patches or new
ports downloaded by "portsnap fetch" or "portsnap cron". The example
shown in portsnap.conf demonstrates ignoring all the language categories.
As mentioned in portsnap.conf.5, the use of an imcomplete ports tree is
not officially supported; but this is something which many users have
requested, so I'm adding it anyway.
PR: bin/85619 (but not the patch provided therein)
MFC after: 1 month
o note all pci/cardbus parts are supported (modulo hal updates)
o use ath_rate_sample instead of ath_rate_onoe
o note SuperG support is missing
o note WPA not supported on 5210
o remove stuff about needing a better tx rate control algorithm
MFC after: 3 days
Files used both "securelevel" and either "secure level" or
"security level"; all are now "security level".
PR: docs/84266
Submitted by: garys
Approved by: keramida
MFC after: 3 days
Changes to historical dates in: Azerbaijan, B.I.O.T., China, Denmark,
Libya, and Poland.
Changes to current dates in: East Timor, Haiti, Israel, Kazakhstan,
Nicaragua, Paraguay, Samoa, Tunisia, Uruguay
Changes to future dates in: Australia, Iran, United States
Obtained from: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2005l.tar.gz
now run on any interface.
- Add a new ifconfig_<ifn> keyword, NOAUTO which prevents configuration
of an interface at boot or via /etc/pccard_ether. This allows
/etc/rc.d/netif to be used to start and stop an interface on a purely
manual basis. The decision to affect pccard_ether may be revisited at
a later date.
Requested by: imp, gallatin (removable_interfaces)
Discussed with: sam, Randy Bush (NOAUTO)
list of diagnostic messages sorted.
Document the recently introduced EOPNOTSUPP error return. Repair
sort ordering for the list of error descriptions.
MFC after: 3 days
packet in an ICMP reply. The minimum of 8 bytes is internally
enforced. The maximum quotation is the remaining space in the
reply mbuf.
This option is added in response to the issues raised in I-D
draft-gont-icmp-payload-00.txt.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Spnsored by: TCP/IP Optimizations Fundraise 2005
the IP address the packet came through in. This is useful for routers
to show in traceroutes the actual path a packet has taken instead of
the possibly different return path.
The new sysctl is named net.inet.icmp.reply_from_interface and defaults
to off.
MFC after: 2 weeks
does not return a list of ASCII NUL terminated strings.
Instead, a list of attribute names is returned, where each
list entry consists of one byte for the name length, followed
by the name, without a terminating ASCII NUL.
This in similar to change 1.17 to extattr_get_file.2
Reviewed by: rwatson, ru
settings can be displayed, near the end of the DESCRIPTION section,
immediately after the paragraph that describes how they can be set.
Add a reference to printenv(1) too (and the ``printenv'' csh builtin).
Submitted by: Gary W. Swearingen <garys@opusnet.com>
PR: docs/85008